What to Watch Thursday

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Gene Hackman in “Hoosiers” (1986).CreditOrion Pictures

By Alec M. Priester

Feb. 4, 2016

The high school basketball film “Hoosiers” may inspire enthusiasm for the approaching N.C.A.A. tournament, and perhaps for the Indiana Hoosiers, who are leading the Big Ten. And if you aren’t much for comedies like “You, Me and the Apocalypse,” the avant-garde “Baskets,” starring Zach Galifianakis, may appeal.

What’s Streaming

BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE: THE RISE OF THADLAND (2016) on demand. The Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle signs an N.F.L. contract and begins to forget his alma mater. But when a dean threatens the school’s ways of life, Thad returns to throw one crazy party.

What’s on TV

HOOSIERS (1986) 7 p.m. on Encore Family. Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) is the new basketball coach in a town in Indiana in this tale of competition and redemption in the 1950s. His coaching style rankles the townspeople and alienates the players but ultimately proves successful. Dennis Hopper, in an Oscar-nominated role, plays an alcoholic who helps coach. “Who could resist a tiny Middle Western town where the barber shop is called Rooster’s and the game of basketball is foremost on every mind?” Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times. “Probably no one, and the quaintly innocent ‘Hoosiers’ is irresistible in much the same way.” (Image: Mr. Hackman)

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) 7:15 p.m. on IFC. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is a spy with no memory of his past in this third installment in the series, directed by Paul Greengrass. He travels through Moscow; London; Tangier, Morocco; and New York as he evades the C.I.A. while searching for his personal history. “Their sights set far beyond the usual genre coordinates, the three Bourne movies drill into your psyche as well as into your body,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. “They’re unusually smart works of industrial entertainment, with action choreography that’s as well considered as the direction.” (Image: Mr. Damon)

YOU, ME AND THE APOCALYPSE8 p.m. on NBC. This comedy is set during the apocalypse, which adds drama. In this episode, “An Erotic Odyssey,” a comet headed for Earth causes riots, and Gaia Scodellaro and Rob Lowe investigate the Second Coming.

ALASKA PROOF9 p.m. on Animal Planet. The show profiles the Alaska Distillery, which makes vodkas, some unconventional, like a salmon-infused one.

LONDON SPY10 p.m. on BBC America. Danny, portrayed by Ben Whishaw, is interrogated by the police and realizes he is being framed.

BASKETS10 p.m. on FX. Zach Galifianakis stars as Chip Baskets, a struggling clown, who in this episode has to help his friend Martha after one friend murders another friend. (Image: Mr. Galifianakis)